Spaces of Emancipation provides a reading on the tensions and contradictions in spatial design for secluded communities which propose alternative forms of cooperation, interdependence, and self-reliance. Investigating their capacity to question gender boundaries, norms, and inequalities, this project focuses on contemporary women-only spaces in urban contexts and women-only communities in rural areas. Drawing attention to little known practices by women in historically male-dominated societies, the project unfolds women’s roles contesting contemporary processes of land privatization, labor exploitation, and environmental exhaustion. Spaces of Emancipation is a long-term research that has materialized in the form of a text published in Faktur: Documents and Architecture (including Colony Club, The Wing, and New Women Space, USA), and is currently under development in a series of tables of assembly (including Umoja village, Kenya; Nashira village, Colombia; and Jinwar village, Syria).